Gang spoon-bait



(No Model.)

H. LOFTIE. GANG SPOON BAIT.

No; 418,200. Patented Dec. 31, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

HENRY LOFTIE, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

GANG SPOON-BAIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,200, dated December 31, 1889. Application filed October 26, 1888. Serial No. 289,228. I (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

7 Be it known that I, HENRY Lonrrn, of Syracuse, county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gang Spoon-Bait, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which Figure l is'a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing kidney fliers. Fig. 3 is a like View showing oval fliers. view showing heart fliers. Fig. 5 represents a detached side elevation and also a top plan view of the flier shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 6 are detached plan views of the kidney, heart, and oval fliers. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a gang spoon-bait using shield-shaped fliers of graduated size.

My invention relates to trolling spoons or spoon-baits for catching fish, and especially to that class thereof which are composed of multiple fliers or spoons all revolving about a single wire.

The object of my invention is to produce such a spoon-bait of improved construction, calculated to more readily deceive the fish, and therefore better adapted to catch them.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described, and which are specifically set forth in the several clauses of claim hereto annexed.

It is constructed as follows: A is the main rod or wire, provided with a line-eye at one end, a hook-eye 2 at the other end, and with the stops 3 thereon, and 4, 5, and 6 are the fliers or spoons mounted upon the rod above each stop, either by the flier being secured to a loose sleeve 7, fitting over the rod, or by an ordinary eye secured to each flier and fitting over the rod or draw-wire. The fliers 4 5 consist of a partially quadrant-shaped piece of sheet metal, bent at 8, to besecured to the barrel 9, and adjacent to the outer end bent with either a positive angle or with a curve 10 on a line diagonally to the center line of the flier, so as to present a diagonal frictional surface to the water and cause the flier to rotate through thediagonal friction.

In Fig. 1 I show the fliers 4 5 as graduated in size, smaller at each end and larger toward Fig. 4 is a like.

' the center, and also as provided with a tail flier of larger size than the body flier adjacent to it, all of which together when rotating will approximate with their outer ends substantially to the form of a fish minnow, as shown by the dotted lines; andI furthermore show the fliers 4 with their outer ends bent or twisted to rotate in one direction and the fliers 5 so bent as to rotate in the opposite direction; but I do not limit myself either to this gradnation in size of the fliers, for I may make wire to carry the flier, for I may dispense with the barrel entirely, simply putting a hole through the end of theflier to receive the wire. Neither do I desire to limit myself to the form of the fliers shown in Fig. 1, forI may desire also to use either the kidneys shown in Fig. 2, or the ovals shown in Fig. 3, or

the hearts shown in Fig. 4, or any other form of flier known to fishermen, the principle of my invention being the use, in a spoon-bait, of multiple fliers arranged upon a single drawwire, and adapted either to all rotate in one direction or alternately to rotate in difierent directions, all being either of uniform size and throw while rotating or of graduated size, to form when rotating a similitude to the body of a minnow, and either with or without a flier to imitate the tail of a minnow.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A spoon-bait consisting of a draw-wire, the stops thereon, and multiple fliers rotating around the wire and decreasingly graduated in size toward each end from the center, substantially as described.

2. In a spoon-bait, a flier widened, rounded, and bent at an angle to the body at its outer end, thence tapered to the inner end and there bent and perforated to receive the draw-wire,

in combination with a draw-wire and a stop thereon, substantially as described.

3. In a spoon-bait, a flier widened, rounded, and bent to an angle to the body at its outer end, thence tapered to the inner end and there secured to a-barrel fitting over the draw-wire,

in combination with the draw-wire and stop thereon, substantially as described.

4:. Aspoon-bait consisting of a draw-Wire, the stops thereon, multiple fliers rotating around the Wire and graduated in size toward each end from the center, and a tail multiple small fliers of uniform size mounted and rotating thereon, and stopsupon the wire for each flier.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of August, 1888.

HENRY LOF'TIE.

flier larger than the adjacent body flier rotating upon the draw-Wire, substantially as described.

5. A spoon-bait consisting of a draw-Wire,

In presence of C. W. SMITH, 1-1.1 DENISON. 

